Protest Planned Against Muddy River Restoration
A group of concerned residents has organized to save several large trees and prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from dredging the Muddy River.
The 10-years-in-the-making Muddy River Restoration Project is about to begin, and some Fenway residents are not happy. Although members of the Save the Muddy River organization support the basic intentions of cleaning the river, the planned process is not the right way to achieve those objectives, said member Hilary Johansen. "We don’t feel like cleaning the river is a bad idea, but going about it this way is not the most environmentally friendly way to do it," said Johansen. Johansen, who graduated from Wheelock last year, spent a few semesters studying the river's ecosystem: its plants, animals and their habitats. Through her research, she determined the state's decade old environmental impact surveys were out of date and out of touch…
Susan Byers Paxson
6:04 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
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